Arts

April 16, 2012Comments Off on Fans recall American artist Jackson Pollock at 100

Out behind a small farmhouse on a Long Island country road sits an old gray barn where a tormented artist dripped paint off brushes, sticks — even turkey basters — onto canvasses spread out on a wooden floor. Besides making ...

April 9, 2012Comments Off on Key to Netflix’s future: better recommendations

Netflix executives John Ciancutti and Todd Yellin are trying to create a video-recommendation system that knows you better than an old friend. It’s a critical mission as Netflix faces pressure from its Internet video rivals and subscribers still smarting from ...

April 9, 2012Comments Off on ‘Lion King’ is Broadway’s all-time box office king

Very quietly, almost stealthily, a new king has been inaugurated on Broadway. Box office figures to be released later Monday show that “The Lion King” last week swiped the title of Broadway’s all-time highest grossing show from “The Phantom of ...

Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make “60 Minutes” the most distinctive news show on television have died. First it was Andy Rooney, the cantankerous commentator who died last November, a month after delivering ...

Name aside, it’s not too hard to guess Rick Drumm’s instrument of choice. As the president of music accessory giant D’Addario & Co., the rock-steady executive and part-time percussionist sits behind the kit of one of Long Island’s largest and ...

After sitting idle for more than a decade, an off-Main Street building in Patchogue has been given new life thanks to the sounds of rock and roll. And Italian sausage. The building, a former Moose Lodge, has been transformed into ...

West Babylon thrift shop owner Mark Meyer will become the latest entrant in the pantheon of reality TV stars April 11, when he appears in the premier of the Travel Channel’s “Baggage Battles.” The 25-year-old owner of Nifty Thrifty will ...

February 29, 2012Comments Off on Monkees singer Davy Jones dies in Florida at 66

Actor and musician Davy Jones, who gained fame with the 1960s band The Monkees, has died in Florida. He was 66. A representative for Jones confirmed that he died Wednesday morning of a heart attack in Florida. Jones rose to ...

Our look at local celebs who coulda been somebody. If you asked the Long Island people featured here if they realized they were the spitting image of the famous face next to them, you’d get answers ranging from surprise to ...

On the National Mall in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering, heroic figure carved in stone. On the Broadway stage, he’s a living, breathing man who chain smokes, sips liquor and occasionally curses. As Americans honor King’s memory ...